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February 2025

  • Oscars composite 2025. Clockwise from top left: Anora, The Brutalist, The Substance, Nickel Boys

    Oscars 2025: best picture nominees – reviews, awards and where to watch

  • Demi Moore at the Baftas.

    Demi Moore, Ralph Fiennes and Gromit: nine key Bafta snubs and surprises

  • a woman and man stand next to each other on a red carpet, the man holding up an award

    How Anora became this year’s surprise Oscar frontrunner

  • Take That performing at King Charles’s coronation concert at Windsor Castle in 2023.

    Take That and Jeff Goldblum to perform at Bafta awards

January 2025

  • Clockwise form top left: Emilia Pérez, Wicked, The Brutalist, Conclave.

    Oscars nominations 2025: Emilia Pérez breaks record with 13 as The Brutalist and Wicked both trail with 10

  • Ralph Fiennes in Conclave; Godzilla Minus One; and Zara Devlin and Cillian Murphy in Small Things Like These.

    2024 in Culture
    ‘I laughed, I cried, I reflected on many things’: Guardian readers’ best films of 2024

December 2024

  • Boxing Day movies 2024 Australia. Films screening on 26 December. (L-R): All We Imagine As Light, Anora, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, A Real Pain and The Room Next Door

    Summer essentials
    Anora, Better Man and Sonic 3: the biggest Boxing Day films out in Australia

  • Adrien Brody in The Brutalist and Mikey Madison in Anora.

    Anora and The Brutalist lead London film critics’ award nominations

  • film still of a woman smiling as she looks at a man

    Best movies US 2024
    Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 4 – Anora

  • To have and to hold … Mark Eidelstein (left) and Mikey Madison in Anora.

    Best films UK 2024
    Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 5 – Anora

November 2024

  • Mark Eidelstein as Vanya dances in the street with Mikey Madison as Ani, wearing a bustier top, both brimming with happiness, with fireworks in the background.

    Anora review – Sean Baker’s screwball Cinderella tale vaults him towards greatness

    Mikey Madison is outstanding as an exotic dancer who marries an oligarch’s son in Baker’s fiery and profane Palme d’Or-winning comedy drama

October 2024

  • Glorious … Mikey Madison and Mark Eydelshteyn, centre, in Anora.

    ‘I find myself getting in a little too deep’: Sean Baker on his Palme d’Or-winning lapdance film

    Anora, his tragi-comedy about a lapdancer who marries a Russian oligarch’s son, is the latest in a line of acclaimed movies about sex work. The Hollywood outsider talks about his anxieties over A-listers and the dangers of partying in his 50s
  • Mikey Madison in a dark grey, high-neck, sleveless dress, reclining on a sofa.

    Mikey Madison: from Tarantino bit part to hot tip for an Oscar playing a sex worker

    The actor, who stars in Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora, talks about the reaction of the strip club community to the film, how she managed to learn Russian, and her lucky break in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  • A still from Anora

    ‘Really speaks to sex workers’: can Anora help humanise a degraded profession?

    Sean Baker’s acclaimed and Oscar-tipped new comedy focuses on a sex worker, a story that led him to consult with those who live and work in that world

May 2024

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Anora is a vivacious Cannes victor and a fitting end to a radically romantic festival

    Peter Bradshaw
    Sean Baker’s story of an erotic dancer who marries a Russian oligarch makes a terrific surprise Palme d’Or winner – though more reward for Mohammad Rasoulof might have felt better
  • Anora, directed by Sean Baker, is about a sex worker whose life becomes a fairy tale and then a nightmare.

    Anora, tale of a stripper who marries a Russian oligarch, wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

    Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to share best acting award in the film Emilia Pérez
  • Mikey Madison as Ani in a scene from Anora

    Anora review – stellar turn from Mikey Madison in sex work non-love story

    Sean Baker’s tragicomedy features Madison as an escort betrayed by a bratty oligarch’s son who she marries in a film that offers a more realistic take than Pretty Woman
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